Language Studies category: 15171 books
First Amendment Studies in Arkansas
The Richard S. Arnold Prize Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
This collection of fourteen essays written by young communication scholars at the University of Arkansas presents unique insights into how First Amendment issues have played out in the state. Rather than exploring the particular legal issues and the constitutional principles enunciated by the courts,...
by Leslie Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2005
From an experienced author in the field, this indispensable guide presents everything needed to create and maintain a successful freelancing career in the world of television and radio.
Whether the reader is studying the field, considering their options, or currently employed as a freelance...
Network Journalism
Journalistic Practice in Interactive Spheres
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Drawing on current theoretical debates in journalism studies, and grounded in empirical research, Heinrich here analyzes the interplay between journalistic practice and processes of globalization and digitalization. She argues that a new kind of journalism is emerging, characterized by an increasingly...
by Mohammad Abuljadail, Nicky Chang Bi, Alyssa Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
The Audience and Business of YouTube and Online Videos is a thorough analysis of YouTube audiences and creators of online videos that considers how the coexistence of user-generated and professional media content on YouTube makes the site a unique platform in the ever-expanding online video industry....
Understanding Women's Magazines
Publishing, Markets and Readerships in Late-Twentieth Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Understanding Women's Magazines investigates the changing landscape of women's magazines. Anna Gough-Yates focuses on the successes, failures and shifting fortunes of a number of magazines including Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Frank, New Woman and Red and considers the dramatic developments...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Intercultural communication is a daily occurrence for most people, as a result of transnational population flows and globalized media. The contributions to this volume propose reconceptualizations of orthodox accounts of intercultural communication based on supposed national cultural characteristics....
by Jay Timothy Dolmage
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Disability Rhetoric is the first book to view rhetorical theory and history through the lens of disability studies. Traditionally, the body has been seen as, at best, a rhetorical distraction; at worst, those whose bodies do not conform to a narrow range of norms are disqualified from speaking. Yet,...
Communicating the City
Meanings, Practices, Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
How human meanings, practices and interactions produce and are produced by urban space is the focus of this timely and exciting addition to the study of urban communication.
Challenging notions of the ‘urban’ as physically, economically or technologically determined, this book explores...
Identity, Ideology and Positioning in Discourses of Lifestyle Migration
The British in the Ariège
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
This book uniquely integrates discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine representations of the self and other within lifestyle migration. With a focus on British migrants living in the Ariège, south-west France, the study identifies common positioning strategies to demonstrate links...
Reading Groups, Libraries and Social Inclusion
Experiences of Blind and Partially Sighted People
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Reading groups have grown rapidly in popularity and continue to be a significant cultural phenomenon. Reading groups in public libraries, linked to the learning and social inclusion agenda, have expanded to include a wide range of groups within society, including people with visual impairments (VIPs)....
Teacher, Scholar, Mother
Re-Envisioning Motherhood in the Academy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Teacher, Scholar, Mother advances a more productive conversation across disciplines on motherhood through its discussion on intersecting axes of power and privilege. This multi- and trans-disciplinary book features mother scholars who bring their theoretical and disciplinary lenses to bear on questions...
Peace Journalism Principles and Practices
Responsibly Reporting Conflicts, Reconciliation, and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Long-time peace journalist Steven Youngblood presents the foundations of peace journalism in this exciting new textbook, offering readers the methods, approaches, and concepts required to use journalism as a tool for peace, reconciliation, and development. Guidance is offered on framing stories, ethical...
News Production
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Bringing to the forefront a much-needed book that bridges the gap between journalistic theory and practice, Sarah Niblock and David Machin provide here an invaluable real-life account of reporting in the context of contemporary newsrooms.
Providing eight detailed ethnographies of eight different...
Everyday Media Culture in Africa
Audiences and Users
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
African audiences and users are rapidly gaining in importance and increasingly targeted by global media companies, social media platforms and mobile phone operators. This is the first edited volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in their interaction with different kinds...